Rising concern about consumer and business confidence in China - as strict curbs aimed at stamping out Covid-19 undercut a return to prosperity - have hampered growth

The tech hub is home to major technology companies like iPhone maker Foxconn, BYD, Huawei and ZTE

The country has achieved a 89.7% vaccination rate and given about 56% of its population a booster dose, but only 61% of those aged above 80 getting primary jabs.

Authorities said they had received reports that some employers had refused to employ workers who caught the virus during the city’s two-month lockdown

ADB cited China’s Covid-19 lockdowns as well as monetary tightening and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as factors dragging down Asian gross domestic product growth

  Authorities in China’s southern technology hub of Shenzhen have ordered strict implementation of testing and temperature checks and locked...

BCA Research expects China's recovery to be U-shaped this year, failing to repeat the V-shaped resurgence that followed lockdowns in 2020 during the early part of the pandemic.

"As long as employment is relatively sufficient, household income grows and prices are stable, slightly higher or lower growth rates are both acceptable," Premier Li Keqiang said

From Singapore Airlines and Malaysia Airlines to All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines, the industry is in various stages of producing and using sustainable aviation fuel for operations

Despite a steady decline in Covid cases, with just 27 being reported on Sunday, authorities said Macau's over 600,000 residents must stay home until Friday

Commercial hub Shanghai said it plans to hold mass testing in many of its 16 districts and in some smaller areas where new infections were reported recently

The lockdown in the Chinese special administrative region was due to end on Monday